Drug charges are serious matters in Texas. If this is your first drug charge, you might have questions about what you can do as you face them. The answer to this is that you have the right to present a defense. When you are facing drug charges, your defense should be...
Year: 2017
Marijuana can still cost your freedom in Texas
Marijuana is legal in a growing number of states. Texas isn't currently one of them. Although Texas does have a medical marijuana law, it is considered relatively unhelpful. The law only allows for the possession and use of low-THC strains of marijuana by those with...
Wild ride captured on video; driver charged with DWI
If you drive from Edinburg northeast along the Gulf coast for a few hours, you will come to Porter, Texas. A freelance photographer who works for a Houston TV station was recently driving on a stretch of road near Porter when he saw something very unusual: a pick-up...
Former police chief arrested for DWI in Texas
If you drive for about 12 hours northeast of Edinburg, you will come to the small town of Waldo, Arkansas. The town of a little more than 1,000 residents is just 10 miles from manmade Lake Columbia, famous for its large-mouth bass fishing. A former police chief for...
Edinburg area men arrested after posing for cocaine photo
A Rio Grande Valley TV station reports that some area men might regret the urge to capture a moment. The men were arrested at a home near Edinburg, officials said. After they were taken into custody as part of a cocaine trafficking investigation, the homeowner told...
Former Texas judge facing meth-related charges
We don't know how many fans of folk music, bluegrass and country music will make the 5-hour drive north from Edinburg to Kerrville later this month, but we know that the annual Kerrville Folk Festival draws visitors from across Texas and far beyond. One of the...
Alamo men facing meth distribution charges
If you drive a few minutes south of Edinburg on US 281, you arrive in our city's neighbor, Alamo. The town is home to three men who find themselves drug trafficking charges far north of Texas. The three men -- ages 37, 39 and 43 -- were recently arrested about 1,100...
San Juan police officers charged with lying to DEA agents
A San Juan police officers faces a federal criminal charge after his recent indictment, news media outlets across the Rio Grande Valley report. Officer Richard Leon Castillo is accused of making false statements late last year to DEA agents who were investigating a...
Drowsy driving leads to Texas accidents, deaths, injuries
If you head north of Edinburg on US-281, you will soon enough come to Interstate 10. That east-west artery connects us to both the west and east coasts of the U.S. It connects us, too, to Ozona, a small Texas town that was the recent site of a horrific chain reaction...
Texas county commissioner strikes plea deal in DWI case
If you drive north of Edinburg, you will come to one of the most populous areas in the state of Texas: Bexar County. That is where a county commissioner was arrested for drunken driving last summer. A recent news article said Commissioner Kevin Wolff had a BAC (blood...